Saunders Fired By the Pistons

Pistons say Flip Saunders won't return as coach

kcudah posted 6/3/2008 from sports.espn.go.com

The Detroit Pistons say Flip Saunders will not be back as coach next season. "Decisions like this are difficult to make," team president Joe Dumars said on the team's Web site. "However, at this time, I feel it is necessary to make a change." In his three seasons, the Pistons were 176-70 in the regular season and 30-21 in the postseason, but they lost in the conference finals each year.

Definition of insanity

PistonsNation posted 6/3/2008 from pistonsnationblog.com

We’ve all heard expression that insanity can be defined as doing the same thing but expecting different results. By that definition the Pistons past three seasons have been marred by insanity.

Pistons Flip the Script, Fire Saunders

David Friedman posted 6/3/2008 from 20secondtimeout.blogspot.com

In the wake of three straight losses in the Eastern Conference Finals, Detroit Pistons President Joe Dumars is determined to do whatever is necessary so that his team can return to the NBA Finals. Dumars began that process by firing Coach Flip Saunders and boldly declaring, "Make no mistake, everybody is in play right now. There are no sacred cows here."

Dumars: 'Everybody's in play'

Detroit Bad Boys found this 6/3/2008 on truebluepistons.blogspot.com

The Pistons took the Game 6 conference finals exit ramp for a third straight season, but Joe Dumars plans on mapping a far different off-season road map this time around. It was a frank and blunt Dumars that met the media Tuesday afternoon, about five ...

In appreciation of Flip Saunders

CelticsBlog found this 6/4/2008 on www.detroitbadboys.com

Dumars said the “coaching search” won’t take very long (will he even interview anyone but Michael Curry?), but before we start talking about the new guy, I just wanted to recognize the old one. Flip Saunders had his faults, sure, ...